[Guide] Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn on GNU/Linux

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is a Massive Multiplayer Online Game (MMO) by Square Enix. As you might expect the world of FFXIV is filled incredibly amazing music that revolves around old themes, and classes such as Dragoons, Summoners, White Mages, Black Mages, Ninja, Botanist, etc.

I’ll be breaking down this guide into several sections.

Sections

Overview

The WINE I’m providing has CSMT patches integrated. I also merged the patches that were made a year ago to solve the user interface flickering issue. Originally this guide was going to include PlayOnLinux instructions, but it became apparent that creating a shortcut in POL is an uphill battle, for some reason it didn’t want to create a simple shortcut.

Winetricks is required to be installed before using this guide.

Getting it running

First, I’m going to assume that you have downloaded the game either through Virtual Box or having a Windows partition. This guide will not cover the installation phase of the game. However, you are most welcome to create a new thread on GamersOnLinux forums.

It’s important that the applications be installed, do not skip any of them.

Let’s launch it!

Once it’s done, go to the installation folder of Final Fantasy XIV. For example, my installation folder is this one (“/media/david/Usagi/FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn/“). You will need to enter the boot folder, thus making it “/media/david/Usagi/FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn/boot”

Launch the game!

$ cd /PATH/TO/YOUR/FFXIV INSTALLATION/boot/
$ wine ffxiboot.exe

If it doesn’t let you click on the EULA, don’t worry.

Edit the EULA file:

nano ~/my games/FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn/FFXIV_BOOT.cfg

Turn

EulaAgreement 0

into

EulaAgreement 1

Now, let’s just forget about the game for a moment. If you are following the instruction to install FFXIV without PlayOnLinux, do these steps:

$ wine regedit

Follow the steps: We are going to create some keys here.
In a nutshell, we just create the folder (key) in HKCU/Software